Linnas had entered the country fraudulently and had concealed his role in a death camp in Nazioccupied Estonia. Numerous Federal courts have confirmed that Karl Linnas supervised and participated in atrocities committed against human life as a guard and later as a commander at the Tartu concentration camp in Nazioccupied Estonia. A deportation order requiring Mr. Linnas to return to the Soviet Union has been upheld by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. However. Attorney General Edwin Meese has shown a lack of committment to carry out the order of deportation. I have joined my distinguished colleague from Florida. Congressman LEHMAN. as well as Senator DANFORTH and Congressman GREEN in initiating a letter to Attorney General Edwin Meese. This letter requests the immediate deportation of Mr. Linnas to the Soviet Union where he has been tried and convicted of these atrocities in absentia. I encourage my colleagues to join me in urging Attorney General Meese to deport Mr.
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